119 Verbs to Use for the Word pirate

This latter vessel he placed in command of a certain John Malyoe whom he had picked up no one knows wherea young man of very good family in England, who had turned red-handed pirate.

Two hired sloops were therefore manned from the Pearl and Lime frigates, in the Chesapeake, and put under the command of Lieutenant Maynard, with instructions to hunt down and destroy this pirate wherever he should be found.

The plan was to purchase the patent rights of Morse, Kendall, Vail, and F.O.J. Smith, and, by means of the large capital which would be at their command, fight the pirates who had infringed on the patent, and gradually unite the different warring companies into one harmonious concern.

] might be allowed to attack the pirate at his anchorage, he received from the king of Portugal a peremptory refusal; and, in his attempt to force his way up the river he was driven back by the fire from the batteries.

By this means he discovered that the Spanish Council of State had sent six well-equipped men-of-war with instructions to drive the English pirates out of the seas, and to destroy as many of them as possible.

There he found the great pirate established at an ordinary, with a little court of ragamuffins and swashbucklers gathered about him, all talking very loud, and drinking healths in raw rum as though it were sugared water.

In March, 1717, Bombay was stirred by the arrival of a private ship, the Morning Star, which had escaped the Beyt pirates after a long and severe encounter.

In one of his Fragments he tells the following anecdote:A person who had seen a poor ship-wrecked and almost dying pirate took pity on him, carried him home, gave him clothes, and furnished him with all the necessaries of life.

So they proceeded to ignore the two of us and turn their political acrimony loose in French, discussing the maddest, most unmoral schemes with the gusto of small boys playing pirates.

And if he should fail me, why the Commander-in-Chief will soon be back from capturing the cat pirates.

The Dutch sailors had even the temerity, under pretext of pursuing pirates, to violate the British territory.

Owing to there being a calm at the time, the East Indiamen were unable to bring their guns to bear: "for which reason and by y'e earnest intercession of y'e whole ship's company to y'e captain" the boats of the Somers and Grantham were hoisted out, and an attempt was made to board the pirates.

Captain Riggs seemed to foresee every possible danger, and went about his preparations to meet the pirates as calmly and methodically as if he were fitting out to go on a picnic.

It is possible at first the Spaniards imagined the pirates intended to escape past their stern, for they instantly began backing oars to keep them from getting past, so that the water was all of a foam about them; at the same time they did this they poured in such a fire of musketry that it was a miracle that no more execution was accomplished than happened.

It ordered Space Command and urged the private parties to keep the information secret so as to avoid panic and to prevent the pirates from learning that their sheathing apparatus had been observed in action, and advised all parties to prepare for any attack the pirates may launch.

[160] [Renegades join pirates and bandits.]

The black man told him of great sums of money buried by Kidd the pirate under the oak-trees on the high ridge, not far from the morass.

"You stick to your pen and typewriter, Mr. Trenholm, and let me run my own crewnice pirate ye'd make, with silk underwear and a typewriter," and he and Petrak laughed loudly at the joke, "I told him you would kill him, and so you will," I said, mustering as much defiance as I could under the circumstances.

" The death of their captain, and, withal the sight of the pivot gunits peculiar properties they knew full wellbrought the pirates to their senses, and they threw down their weapons, and agreed to give themselves up.

Venice, England, France, had repeatedly chastised the pirates in times past.

The pursuit patrol; or, Chasing the platinum pirates.

It was for the accomplishment of this service that Capt. Hall sailed from Valparaiso; and he called at Conception on his way, in order to glean information respecting the pirate.

He punished the African pirates of the Mediterranean.

THE ANGRY WARMING-PAN III A VISIT TO THE GOOSE IV THE FALSE HARE V REAL LIVE PIRATES VI ABOARD THE MERRY MOUSER VII CATNIP ISLAND VIII MUTINY

"How can that be" said MacKinnon, "when I bestowed this entertainment upon you in free good-will?""It is true, my friend," replied the pirate, "but then it has quite disconcerted the purpose for which I came hither; which was to put you to death, my good friend, and seize upon your house and island, and so settle myself in the world.

119 Verbs to Use for the Word  pirate